Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dispatched to the township of Port Lincoln, 170 miles west of Adelaide, Australia. From there he was to sail 20 miles out into the gulf in company of Underwater Photographers Ron and Valerie Taylor and be lowered over the side of a ship in a special steel mesh cage. Rizzo's role, doubling for one of the film's leading actors, was simply to persevere while a great white shark tried to trash...
Bruce was fairly programmed for mishap. In order to use him, a twelve-ton steel platform, to which the mechanical shark was attached by a 100-ft.-long umbilical cable, had to be sunk to the ocean floor. The controls on the platform were operated by 13 technicians wearing scuba equipment...
...wryly adding that "if you're born in Brooklyn, you have to invent some kind of landscape for yourself." Her latest projects have moved into an area explored by only a few other American sculptors, like Richard Serra: neither earthwork nor freestanding construction, but midway between the two-steel plates embedded into planes and strips of earth. The first of these immense environmental pieces was her 280-ft. Land Canal and Hillside built in Dallas in 1971: a string of triangular steel forms down the dividing strip of a highway, rising and falling and tilting, meant to be seen...
...that Oldfield really exercises his power. At an I.T.A. meet last month in El Paso, Oldfield whirled and hurled the 16-lb. shot farther than anyone else in history. Spinning around with a discus thrower's 1½ turn, which no other shotputter has mastered, Oldfield fired the steel ball 75 ft., an astonishing 3½ ft. past the existing world outdoor mark. Oldfield's effort will not be recognized as a record by amateur governing bodies because of his professional status, but he has more pressing concerns. What he wants most is to blast the shot beyond...
...capable of stirring deep emotions. "I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham," this evocative voice promises in her best song so far. "I would hold my life in his saving grace." As the melody begins to rise, she floats a light true soprano above the whining steel guitar: "I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham if I thought I could see, I could see your face...